From BJP’s victory to N.Korea’s Missile Launch and Dog Show: Top photos of the week

Mar 12, 2017 14:50 IST

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A supporter of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) celebrates after learning of the initial poll results outside the party headquarters in Kolkata, India. (Rupak De Chowdhuri / REUTERS)

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North Korea's Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) via KNS on March 7, 2017 shows the launch of four ballistic missiles by the Korean People's Army (KPA) during a military drill at an undisclosed location in North Korea. Nuclear-armed North Korea launched four ballistic missiles on March 6 in another challenge to President Donald Trump, with three landing provocatively close to America's ally Japan. (KCNA VIA KNS / AFP)

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A visitor looks at a walrus (Odobenus rosmarus) on March 6, 2017 in a zoo Hamburg. (Axel Heimken / AFP)

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A Muslim man accused of abusing three teenagers is lashed 112 times in front of dozens of local officials and residents in the city of Jantho, Aceh province on March 10, 2017. Indonesia's only province to impose sharia law caned Buddhists for the first time, after two men accused of cockfighting opted for punishment under the strict Islamic regulations. (CHAIDEER MAHYUDDIN / AFP)

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Mohammad Mohiedine Anis, 70, smokes his pipe as he sits in his destroyed bedroom listening to music on his vinyl player in Aleppo's formerly rebel-held al-Shaar neighbourhood. (JOSEPH EID / AFP)

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Visitors look at paper lanterns as part of a memorial service for victims of the 2011 quake-tsunami disaster in Natori, Miyagi prefecture on March 11, 2017. Japan is marking on March 11 the sixth anniversary of the magnitude 9.0 quake which struck under the Pacific Ocean and the ensuing tsunami which left about 18,500 people dead or missing. (KAZUHIRO NOGI / AFP)

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Iraqi rapid response members fire a missile against Islamic State militants during a battle with the militants in Mosul, Iraq, March 11, 2017. (Thaier Al-Sudani / REUTERS)

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An attendee experiences the Infinity Room installation at the South by Southwest (SXSW) Music Film Interactive Festival 2017 in Austin, Texas, U.S. (Brian Snyder / REUTERS)

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A convoy of US forces armoured vehicles drives near the village of Yalanli, on the western outskirts of the northern Syrian city of Manbij. (DELIL SOULEIMAN / AFP)

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Seagulls and rock-fishing couple, Arie and Zakiyyah Widodo are sprayed by a large wave breaking against the rocks near Sydney's Bronte Beach, Australia. (Aaron Bunch / REUTERS)

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Iraqi fighters from the Abbas Brigade, which fights under the umbrella of the Shiite popular mobilisation units, fire towards enemy positions in village of Badush, some 15 kilometres northwest of Mosul, during the ongoing battle to retake the city's west from Islamic State (IS) group jihadists on March 9, 2017. (Mohammed SAWAF / AFP)

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Skiers compete on March 10, 2017 in Beaufort, during the third stage of the 32nd edition of ski mountaineering competition Pierra Menta. (JEFF PACHOUD / AFP)

People light bundles of pinewood chips during the "Chienbase" procession on March 5, 2017 in Liestal, northern Switzerland. The procession takes place on the Sunday night after Ash Wednesday through the medieval town center. On this occasion, hundreds of people carry burning bundles of pinewood chips (called Chienbase, the Swiss German word for 'pinewood besom') (Michael Buholzer / AFP)

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A Royal Australian Air Force F/A-18 Hornet aircraft launches flares in flight during the Australian International Airshow in Melbourne. The annual event sees 180,000 visitors over the 3-day public event held at the Avalon Airfield some 80 kms south-west of Melbourne. (MAL FAIRCLOUGH / AFP)

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A woman kisses her American Cocker Spaniel during the third day of the Crufts Dog Show in Birmingham, Britain. (Darren Staples / REUTERS)